In Pictures: The 10 most powerful supercomputers on the planet

The latest Top500 list details the world's mightiest silicon

No. 10: IBM Development Engineering DARPA Trial Subset

This IBM Power7-driven entry clocked in at 1.5 petaflops on Top500's tests, using just 63,360 total processor cores -- by far the smallest number in the top 10.

(Pictured: illustration of the Power7+ architecture used in the DARPA system)

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